Anyone involved in SEO tends to rely on SEO Quake to do quick competitor analysis. It is a useful tool that makes ranking factors such as links to page, links to domain, domain age, presence of DMOZ, PR and more available for analysis right from within the SERP. However, the link data was fed from Yahoo Site Explorer and this was wound down last week meaning that link data on SEO Quake no longer works. However, there is a solution which Rahul Kharnokhya advised me of this morning – well done Rahul! In SEO Quake Preferences select “new” and paste the code:
[NAME]=Majestic SEO
[TITLE]=Maj SEO
http://api.majesticseo.com/getdomainstats.php?apikey=<enter API key here>&url={clean_domain}&exact=0
[URL_S]=https://www.majesticseo.com/search.php?folder=&q={clean_domain}
[REGEXP]=StatsRefDomains=”(\d+)”
This will add a new Majestic SEO icon to SEO Quake as circled below:
The number shown is the number of unique referring domains which is a far more important metric than total links. To get more data, click on the number and you will be redirected to Majestic SEO to see details such as total links, number of links from educational sites and more.